Judges 3:1-6
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3aNow these are the nations which Yahweh allowed to remain, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan; 21however, God tested them in order that the generations of the sons of Israel would know war, by learning war, 2especially those who had not known it formerly). 3These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and athe Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as 1Lebo-hamath. 4And they were for 1,atesting Israel, to know if they would 2obey the commandments of Yahweh, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5aNow the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 6and athey took their daughters for themselves as wives and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.